| For all of you who were fascinated to read P.R. Reid's "Escape from Colditz"... I just learned an interesting bit of trivia. Reid probably used the term "shovewood" because it was popular military vernacular. I just stumbled on this page which defines "shovewood" as "A word often used in naval circles in circumstances when a civilian might refer to a 'Do-hickey', a 'What-not', a 'What-do-you-call-it'." That seems appropriate given the do-hickey nature of Reid's Shovewood contraptions.
Oh, for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, read Escape from Colditz by P.R. Reid. Now. |
